Leonard Wilson

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Dora Sigerson Shorter - Friend in Need

Dora Maria Sigerson Shorter was an Irish poet and sculptor, who after her marriage in 1895 wrote under the name Dora Sigerson Shorter. — Summary by Wikipedia

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Ella Wheeler Wilcox - Bachelor to a Married Flirt

Ella Wheeler Wilcox was an American author and poet. Her best-known work was Poems of Passion. Her most enduring work was «Solitude», which contains the lines «Laugh, and the world laughs with you; weep, and you weep...

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Madison Cawein - Quarrel

This LIbriVox Weekly Poem is taken from The Poems of Madison Cawein, Volume II, New World Idylls and Poems of Love (1901) — Summary by David Lawrence

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Ring Lardner - Visit From Young Gloom

Ringgold Wilmer «Ring» Lardner was an American sports columnist and short story writer best known for his satirical writings about sports, marriage, and the theatre. He was a contemporary of Ernest Hemingway, Virginia...

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Ella Wheeler Wilcox - Solar Eclipse

A commemoration of the recent solar eclipse is presented in this week's group reading. — Summary by David Lawrence

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Robert F. Murray - Where's The Use

Robert Fuller Murray was a Victorian poet. Although born in the United States, Murray lived most of his life in the United Kingdom, most notably in St Andrews, Scotland. He wrote two books of poetry and was published...

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Family Life

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Ella Wheeler Wilcox - Domestic Bliss

This scene of 'Domestic Bliss' is from Poems of Cheer by Ella Wheeler Wilcox. (Pub 1914) — Summary by David Lawrence

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Sara Teasdale - In A Subway Station

Sara Teasdale (August 8, 1884 – January 29, 1933) was an American lyric poet. — Summary by Wikipedia

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Oliver Wendell Holmes, Sr. - To a Blank Sheet of Paper

Oliver Wendell Holmes Sr. was an American physician, poet, and polymath based in Boston. A member of the Fireside Poets, he was acclaimed by his peers as one of the best writers of the day. His most famous prose works...

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Sara Teasdale - Driftwood

Sara Teasdale was an American lyric poet. This poem is taken from her 1920 collection Flame and Shadow. — Summary by David Lawrence

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Heinrich Heine - Song

Christian Johann Heinrich Heine was a German poet, journalist, essayist, and literary critic. He is best known outside Germany for his early lyric poetry, which was set to music in the form of Lieder (art songs) by...

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Margaret Steele Anderson - To The Men Who Went Down On The Titanic

Margaret Steele Anderson's tribute to the men left on board the doomed ship, some of whom followed the «Women and children first» tradition of the sea. — Summary by David Lawrence

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Stolen Bacillus and other stories H. G. Wells

Eight Keys to Eden Mark Clifton

Songs of Innocence and Experience (version 2) William Blake

Russian Realities and Problems: Lectures delivered at Cambridge in August 1916

Short Story Collection Vol. 081

Around the World with the Children Frank G. Carpenter

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